It's Money That Matters
Randy Newman

Of all of the people that I used to know

Most never adjusted to the great big world

I see them lurking in book stores

Working for the Public Radio

Carrying their babies around in a sack on their back

Moving careful and slow


[Chorus:]

It's money that matters

Hear what I say

It's money that matters

In the usa


All of these people are much brighter than I

In any fair system they would flourish and thrive

But they barely survive

They eke out a living and they barely survive


When I was a young boy, maybe thirteen

I took a hard look around me and asked what does it mean?

So I talked to my father, and he didn't know

And I talked to my friend and he didn't know

And I talked to my brother and he didn't know

And I talked to everybody that I knew


[Chorus:]

It's money that matters

Now you know that it's true

It's money that matters

Whatever you do


Then I talked to a man lived up on the county line

I was washing his car with a friend of mine

He was a little fat guy in a red jumpsuit

I said You look kind of funny

He said I know that I do


But I got a great big house on the hill here

And a great big blonde wife inside it

And a great big pool in my backyard and another great big pool

Beside it

Sonny it's money that matters, hear what I say

It's money that matters in the usa

It's money that matters

Now you know that it's true

It's money that matters whatever you do


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